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Podcast: Are You What They Say You Are? (Focus: France/Algeria: Zahia Rahmani's Trilogy)

31/3/2020

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On this journey, I'm joined by Nour and Assia as we discuss
  • What is our responsibility towards our (unborn) children?
  • What does it mean to be called “Muslim”?
  • Discovering Algerian literature via the US.
  • How does the language we speak affect our identity?
  • (In) denial: France and the harkis.

Books in focus: a trilogy by Zahia Rahmani (France/Algeria):
  • Moze
  • “Musulman” roman (“Muslim” a novel)
  • France, récit d’une enfance (France, story of a childhood)

Find Nour on Instagram @nourstuckinabookstore. 
Find Assia on Instagram/Twitter @shereadsox and her website whatassiareads.wordpress.com

Special thanks to Sabine Wespieser Editions and Deep Vellum Publishing for providing copies of these books.

To listen
- on iTunes, click here;
​- on Spotify,click here.
Algerian book suggestions
  • L’âne mort by Chawki Amari (no English translation) - Nour, @nourstuckinabookstore
  • Bleu, blanc, vert by Maïssa Bey (no English translation) - Assia, @shereadsox
  • Portrait du colonisateur and Portrait du colonisé (Eng. title: The Colonizer and the Colonised) by Albert Memmi - Houda, @loublsmn
  • La grande maison by Mohammed Dib (no English translation; available in Italian: “La casa grande") - Noor, @noor_reads
  • La colline oubliée by Mouloud Mammeri (no English translation) - Dyhia, @dyhia_medjouti
  • La question (Eng. title: The Question) by Henri Alleg - Farah, @recitsdalgerie
  • Ce que le jour doit à la nuit (Eng. title: What the Day Owes the Night) by Yasmina Khadra - Hakim, @hakim_books

For a list of Algerian literature that has been translated into English, have a look at Nadia's (@_madcha_) list on the Arabic Literature in Translation website.

Other episodes mentioned
  • Au Café (Part 1 and Part 2)
  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Other books mentioned
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
  • Le blanc de l’Algérie (Eng. title: Algerian White) by Assia Djebar
  • A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
  • The Mothers by Brit Bennett

Qur’anic verse mentioned: Surat al-Kahf, 18:82.

Related resources (not endorsements) 
  • ​Fille de harki: relating to the father, country and religion in the writing of Zahia Rahmani by Alison Rice in Polygraphies: Francophone Women Writing Algeria (chapter)
  • Archive Rare du Camp de St Ardoise (video - in French)
  • Building Islam as a Race in French Colonial Law by Mouhamadou Ndiaye (article)
  • Unrequited Loyalty: The Harkis in Postcolonial France by Michael Lejman (academic paper)
  • France Recognises Debt to Algerian Troops by Jon Henley (article)
  • Emmanuel Macron Tries - Slowly - to Reckon with France's Past by Yasmeen Serhan (article)
  • Veterans: The French in Algeria on Al Jazeera English (documentary - focus on European soldiers)
  • Algerian Harkis Appeal for Full Recognition on France 24 (news report)
  • On Translating Zahia Rahmani's Invisible Tongues by Lara Vernaud (article by the translator of France, récit d'une enfance)
  • Translating Zahia Rahmani: An Interview with Matt Reeck by Erik Noonan (article - interview with the translator of "Musulman" roman)
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Podcast: Ep. 40. In We vs. Me, which side are you on? (Focus: Somalia: Links by Nuruddin Farah)

4/3/2020

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On this journey, I’m joined by Fousia from Naptime is Sacred podcast as we explore
  • How a lack of stability can affect a person’s physical, mental and emotional state;
  • When is an insider an outsider? Or is it the other way round?
  • The effects of war on women.

Book in focus: Links by Nuruddin Farah (Somalia).

Find Fousia on Instagram @naptimeissacred and her website naptimeissacred.com.
To listen to her podcast, search "Naptime is Sacred" on your podcast app.
To listen
  • on iTunes, click here;
  • on Spotify, click here.

Book suggestions
  • The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed - Fousia of Naptime is Sacred podcast;
  • Links by Nuruddin Farah - Abdullahi of Unleashed Potential podcast;
  • Amilah by Halima Hagi - Anisa Hagi.

My other Somali fiction reads
  • Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed
  • The Story of Us by Hanna Ali

My background research resources (not endorsements)
  • Getting Somalia Wrong? Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State by Mary Harper (book)
  • Somalia: The Forgotten Story - Al Jazeera World (documentary)
  • Gender, State Collapse, Conflict and State Building: Recent Research from the Somali Context by Judith Gardner (podcast/lecture)
  • Encyclopedia Britannica: Somalia (encyclopedia entry)
  • TEDxHargeisa: The Transition from Oral to Written Culture by Dr Jama Musse Jama (TED talk) - in English from 3 mins.
  • A Post-mortem on the Postmodern? Conflict and Corporeality in Nuruddin Farah’s Links by JE Masterson (journal article)
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